Love and Relationships: Anti-Labels
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Love and Relationships: Anti-Labels

We live in an era of branding, labeling, slogan-ing, identifying, and trying to fit in even when we purposely stand out: an age of individualism, but where you want that individualism to be called something. A period where having no identity is an ‘identity’.  A dispensation of ‘me’, my way. A time of “I want…

J-Word Play: March ’12
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J-Word Play: March ’12

犯人に間違われた人はマンションの何階に住んでいる?
(はんにんにまちがわれたひとはマンションのなんかいにすんでいる?)

What a License Is
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What a License Is

A car isn’t just an engine, some doors, and a windshield; that’s what a car needs. Not what a car is. What a car really is, is freedom, as a wise pirate once pointed out. In our lives and time, it’s the freedom to calculate the cost of gas and tolls against the fares levied by public transportation, the freedom to get lost in the winding nonsensical backroads; it’s the freedom to go where and when we choose, not bound by the bus route or train schedule. Such freedom is important to many a member of the JET community.